It’s true that you can’t please everybody, but in the workplace it might be worth trying. What does and what doesn’t offend someone seems to change daily, but when it comes to workplace attire, management attorneys are claiming it should be more intuitive.
Casual Fridays come around but once a week and it’s what some employees look forward to. Workers come in wearing jeans and T-shirts with graphics or sayings because, after all, it’s casual Friday. One employee found himself in quite a predicament after being called out by management for wearing a T-shirt with a confederate flag on it.
Some human resource experts feel that if an employee is wearing a potentially offensive image that they should be sent home or told to cover or change the garment. Many courts feel the same way. “Regardless of the intent behind the employee’s decision to wear the shirt, several courts have held that coworkers wearing Confederate flag clothing can be a contributing factor in finding the existence of a racially hostile work environment”. 
The banning of the Confederate flag in the workplace is actually quite controversial. This “rebel flag” was flown by Navy ships in combat in the South Pacific during World War II. For some people, however, this flag is a symbol of slavery and resistance to integration.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has actually issued decisions reviving claims that employers who let workers wear shirts with the flag unlawfully permits race discrimination.
HR experts feel that at the end of the day employers should have two policies that regulate clothing in the workplace. One should be a personal appearance policy and the other should be an anti-harassment policy. Employees should understand that they are a reflection of the company during the workday and dress codes should always support the business operations.